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  1. A pride that dares, and heeds not praise: a British political timeline

    "WHERE IS THE SHITTING THING?" Somewhere in the flat a Nokia 6680 was ringing - for the third time in an hour - and he still couldn't find where it was. It was not down the back of the sofa, it was not in the laundry basket, and it most definitely was not in any of his pockets. For a second...

  2. WI: Reagan contracts HIV

    HIV/AIDS activists in the 1980s were critical of the Reagan administration was slow to act on the pandemic as it emerged. Screening of donated blood for HIV/AIDS was not instituted within the United States of America until January 1985. Let's imagine that either in 1981 during surgery...

  3. A Brief History of the House of Hanover

    1706 Hanover Georg August, only son of Georg Ludwig, Duke and Elector of Braunschweig und Lüneburg, died aged 22 of pneumonia, a complication of a smallpox infection caught from his new wife, Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach.[1] This death was problematic for Georg Ludwig, as it meant that...

  4. WI: A deeper split in the Conservative Party c.1999?

    In March 1999 a group of pro-European Union members of the Conservative Party split away from the main party, disaffected with William Hague's eurosceptic leadership of the party. One of their purported aims had been to create an SDP-style split within the Conservative party, with...

  5. WI: William II of England marries Edith of Scotland

    William II famously didn't marry, leading to accusations in history that he was homosexual. One potential bride, that he might historically have considered, was Edith of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland, whom he is said to have visited in 1093, possibly to judge her suitability as...

  6. Edmund Tudor, third son of Henry VII, lives

    The Tudors are a popular topic, and we often see points of departure discussing the survival of Arthur, Prince of Wales, so I thought I would propose something a little different. In 1499 Henry VII fathered his third son, who he named Edmund after his father. Edmund was given the title Duke...

  7. WI: William the Conqueror was infertile?

    A popular what if on this site is to ask what would have happened if Harold II had won the Battle of Hastings in 1066. I am (reasonably) certain, however, that nobody has ever asked what would have happened had William the Conqueror been infertile. In our timeline, when William took the throne...

  8. WI: The Salian dynasty and Heinrich V survive?

    When I was looking at the consequences of William Adelin avoiding dying on the white ship in 1120, one of the things that came up was who Matilda would marry after her husband, Heinrich V, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, died in 1125. As a result, I would like to ask, what would happen...

  9. WI: The 'White Ship' Arrives Safely?

    On the night of 25th November 1120 a Norman vessel, the White Ship, left the port of Barfleur for England. The crew and many passengers drunk, as the ship set sail it struck a submerged rock and sank with the loss of all on board. This event was of particular note as it carried the heir...

  10. WI: Queen Victoria lives to the age of 97

    An idea which crawled into my head last week: what if Queen Victoria had not died in 1901 as in OTL, but lived until the age of 97 - taking her life up to 1916. This is not impossible, though we would have to assume that she would be in poor health for much of her late life, suffering from...

  11. 'Over by Christmas'

    This is something I've been turning over in my head for a few months now, and I thought I would throw the question open for discussion on here. The board is often flush with discussion of how the Germans could achieve fast victory on the Western Front in the First World War, but I don't...

  12. AHC: Break the Old Firm's dominance

    Of the 114 years the Scottish Football League and Scottish Premier League have been in existence, 95 championships have been won by the Old Firm (for the uninitiated, the Glasgow clubs Celtic and Rangers). The longest period where neither Old Firm team won the championship was between 1982-83...

  13. Israeli Sinai

    What would it take for Israel still to control the Sinai Peninsular, and what would the impact be? Let's maybe say that Israel also controls the East Bank of the Suez Canal.

  14. Alsace-Lorraine and France

    In 1870 a small group in the Reichstag, centred around Bebel and the socialists argued against the Franco-Prussian War, and (more pertinently) against the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine and then for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, arguing that it could only provoke French revanchism. Is...
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